.NET and Syslog?
Interop is not only about webservices. There are lots of other systems that already expose interfaces of some sort that do not depend upon angle brackets and WSDL.
Take Syslog, for instance. The Windows Event Log is the analog to Syslog in the *nix world. It's pretty dern easy for a .NET app to spool an event to the Windows Event Log. But how can a .NET app log an event in a Syslog?
There are bridges available, that can "tee" the Windows Event Log and send the result to a Syslog. If that's not what you want, you can also connect directly to Syslog just using the UDP protocol. There is no built-in support for Syslog specifically in the .NET base class framework, but it is pretty simple to do:
// syslog.cs
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//
// small class for sending log messages to Syslog from .NET
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using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
namespace Ionic.Syslog
{
public enum Level
{
Emergency= 0,
Alert=1,
Critical=2,
Error=3,
Warning=4,
Notice=5,
Information=6,
Debug=7,
}
public enum Facility
{
Kernel=0,
User=1,
Mail=2,
Daemon=3,
Auth=4,
Syslog=5,
Lpr=6,
News=7,
UUCP=8,
Cron=9,
Local0=10,
Local1=11,
Local2=12,
Local3=13,
Local4=14,
Local5=15,
Local6=16,
Local7=17,
}
public class Message
{
private int _facility;
public int Facility
{
get { return _facility;}
set { _facility=value; }
}
private int _level;
public int Level
{
get { return _level;}
set { _level=value; }
}
private string _text;
public string Text
{
get { return _text;}
set { _text=value; }
}
public Message() {}
public Message (int facility, int level, string text)
{
_facility= facility;
_level= level;
_text= text;
}
}
/// need this helper class to expose the Active propery of UdpClient
/// (why is it protected, anyway?)
public class UdpClientEx : System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient
{
public UdpClientEx() : base() { }
public UdpClientEx(IPEndPoint ipe) : base (ipe) { }
~UdpClientEx()
{
if (this.Active) this.Close();
}
public bool IsActive
{
get { return this.Active ; }
}
}
public class Client
{
private IPHostEntry ipHostInfo;
private IPAddress ipAddress;
private IPEndPoint ipLocalEndPoint;
private Ionic.Syslog.UdpClientEx udpClient;
private string _sysLogServerIp= null;
private int _port= 514;
public Client()
{
ipHostInfo = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
ipAddress = ipHostInfo.AddressList[0];
ipLocalEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(ipAddress, 0);
udpClient= new Syslog.UdpClientEx(ipLocalEndPoint);
}
public bool IsActive
{
get { return udpClient.IsActive ; }
}
public void Close()
{
if (udpClient.IsActive) udpClient.Close();
}
public int Port
{
set {_port= value; }
get {return _port; }
}
public string SysLogServerIp
{
get { return _sysLogServerIp; }
set
{
if ((_sysLogServerIp==null) && (!IsActive))
{
_sysLogServerIp= value;
//udpClient.Connect(_hostIp, _port);
}
}
}
public void Send(Syslog.Message message)
{
if (!udpClient.IsActive)
udpClient.Connect(_sysLogServerIp, _port);
if (udpClient.IsActive)
{
int priority = message.Facility * 8 + message.Level;
string msg = System.String.Format("<{0}>{1} {2} {3}",
priority,
DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM dd HH:mm:ss"),
ipLocalEndPoint.Address,
message.Text);
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(msg);
udpClient.Send(bytes, bytes.Length);
}
else throw new Exception ("Syslog client Socket is not connected. Please set the SysLogServerIp property");
}
}
}
namespace Ionic.Syslog.Tests
{
public class TestClient
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Ionic.Syslog.Client c = new Ionic.Syslog.Client();
try
{
//c.Port= 1200;
c.SysLogServerIp= "127.0.0.1" ; // syslogd on local machine
int facility= (int) Syslog.Facility.User; // Local5
int level= (int) Syslog.Level.Warning; // Debug;
string text= (args.Length >0)?args[0]:"Hello, Syslog World.";
c.Send(new Syslog.Message(facility,level,text));
}
catch (System.Exception ex1)
{
Console.WriteLine("Exception! " + ex1);
}
finally
{
c.Close();
}
}
}
}
Update: you can find other source code here.